True Horror Quotes

#1. True horror is not in our stories, it's in our lives. Stories help us process it.

Ksenia Anske

#2. When I have inspired true horror and disgust, I shall have conquered my solitude.

Alexis Child

#3. I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.

Sergio Aragones

#4. I don't want you leaving laughing, I want to leave you shaking. That to me is true horror.

Tony Todd

#5. Well, it wasn't a holiday, but I had expected to do some sightseeing when I went to Haiti to film a series called 'True Horror' for Discovery. Before I arrived, our film crew were kidnapped and held at knifepoint.

Anthony Head

#6. A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality.

Colson Whitehead

#7. Then his lids closed slowly over his slightly bloodshot eyes, and Mort Rainey, who had yet to discover what true horror was all about, fell asleep.

Stephen King

#8. But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.

Peggy Orenstein

#9. It was in that small lack of movement that Poet could see true horror. A mirror held up to the human race and how it can be manipulated. Ruined.

Suzanne Young

#10. The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. Well did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?
Pam to Jessica, True Blood

Alan Ball

#12. One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.

Tananarive Due

#13. I'll tell you right now, a ghoul's hunger is true hell.

Sui Ishida

#14. The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.
These are called true stories.

Moonshine Noire

#15. I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.

Ladyhawke

#16. Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. He pursues his unique vision with admirable honesty and rigorousness and conveys it in prose as powerfully evocative as any writer in the field. I'd say he might just be a genius.

Ramsey Campbell

#17. Short stories are great start, but if they are true that's the best start so far in about 222 short stories I have viewed and I have already shared them in the book series Reddit Collection.

Deyth Banger

#18. Horror gives place to wonder at your true account;
The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.

Aeschylus

#19. I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story. It's like knowing how the sausage is made.

Olivia Munn

#20. It was true. She was his soul's star. His heart ignited every time she came into the room, flared with every just-so gesture. Anything she touched became instantly talismanic.

Mark Kirkbride

#21. I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, & every war has to me the horror od a family feud. I look upon the true patriotism as the brotherhood of man & the service to of all to all. The only fighting that saves is the one that helps the world toward liberty, justice & an abundant life for all.

Helen Keller

#22. I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.

David Conyers

#23. The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

George R R Martin

#24. You are so beautiful, I could eat you, he said.
And it was true. Her smile was as intoxicating as the wine.
And he could eat her.

Jonas Eriksson

#25. Sanctum, a holy or sacred place. What could be more sacred than possessing the power of your own true thoughts? Sanctum. It is both lock and key.

Madeleine Roux

#26. Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

Justin Alcala

#27. I have experienced real horror. I have known true evil. Its name is human nature.

James Newman

#28. What if all religiouns were stories, and all stories were true?

Rick Chiantaretto

#29. The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive - if their looks matched their charm and their cunning - they wouldn't only be dangerous.
They would be irresistible.

Nenia Campbell

#30. If I become like you, I will have no will of my own. I will have no individuality, I will just be your puppet.'
'True.' Sio smiled thinly. 'But even a puppet may dance before its strings are drawn tight. You will dance, Cass, and the heavens will applaud you.

Christopher Pike

#31. I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people, actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chaps out here

Kishore Kumar

#32. One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.

Faraaz Kazi

#33. A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough ... [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

Voltaire

#34. All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin

Clive Barker

#35. It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that's already come true.

Beth Revis

#36. I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.

Dan Chaon

#37. The true God is to be venerated in obscure and fearful Places, with Horror in their Approaches, and thus did our Ancestors worship the Daemon in the form of great Stones.

Peter Ackroyd

#38. Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue
Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true

Bruce A. Sarte

#39. The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

David Byrne

#40. The matter ended in my giving up my room. I had a strange reluctance to making the offer. which surprised myself. Was it a boding of evil to come? I cannot say. We are strangely and wonderfully made. It may have been. ("Horror: A True Tale")

John Berwick Harwood

#41. Death was not eternal; Death was the only true mortal God ever created. It is no wonder we stare in horror at it ...

Ginger Garrett

#42. Further, deeper still, those whose true names are for ever hidden from the world picked up the pattern of vibrations in the ether, and something akin to joy stirred in their fathomless minds. Perhaps soon they would be called upon to feed.

Marc Gascoigne

#43. It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

Kirby Wright

#44. We'd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we'd survive to talk about.

Chuck Palahniuk

#45. Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all good non-analytic creatures refute with horror, but quite true: there is always the poignant intensive personal taste, the flair of inner-sex, in the tenderest friendships of women.

Mary MacLane

#46. Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [ ... ] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them.

Stephen King

#47. Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.

K. Hari Kumar

#48. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

Bram Stoker

#49. I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.

Nando Parrado

#50. He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

Joe Hill

#51. I realize all the uncountable manifestations the thinking-mind invents to place wall of horror before its pure perfect realization that there is no wall and no horror just Transcendental Empty Kissable Milk Light of Everlasting Eternity's true and perfectly empty nature.

Jack Kerouac